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Show Thirteenth Annual Park City Festival Opens Saturday An array of canvas, fiber, ceramics and music will be presented on Park City's Historic Main Street when artists and musicians gather for the Thirteenth Annual Park City Art Festival August 7 and 8. Two-hundred and twenty-five visual artists representing 22 states will display their artwork from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Twenty-eight Utah performing artists will also be featured throughout the Festival. Refreshment booths and cafe seating will adjoin both performing arts stages offering everything from hot dogs to crepe suzettes. A variety of cuisine w ill also be available at Park City's many restaurants and clubs. The majority of visual artists were selected by a seven person jury from a field of over 600 applicants. The jury was comprised of prominent Utah artists and arts administrators. The exhibitors will come to Park City from as far away as Florida to display their work. Almost every type of art will be represented, including sculpture, photography, fiber, printing, jewelry and painting. This year 17 local artists will display their work in a consolidated booth on lower Main Street. These artists from Summit and Wasatch counties were chosen by the Park City Artists Association. This booth will allow the Park City-artists City-artists to show the quality of work being produced by the local art community. The Festival's expanded performing arts program will nature many diverse styles of music. The Treasure .Mountain Stage, a new addition to the Festival, will be heated at the top of Main Street. Highlights at this stage will include the Joe Muscolino Big Band, Cow Jazz's country rock and a performance of Claude Boiling's "Suite for Flute and la Piano" by the Erich Graf Quartet. More imimate performances will be held at the Kimball Art ( enter's Courtyard stage on lower Main Street. The Deseret NTrini Band's Utah folk music, the Jensen-Woodbury Duo's classical guitar sounds and the Wasatch Rascal's traditional MK-iican string band music are a sampling of the music v ih h will be performed at the Courtyard Stage. M5( W FM 92, a Park City community radio station, will be broadcasting music live from the performing arts stages. In i ldition, KPCW will broadcast traffic information, schedules a -id interviews throughout the Festival. Visitors are ncouraged to tune their radios to FM 92 upon entering Park Citv. Ml traffic entering Park City will be directed to free parking areas. Free shuttle buses will carry visitor to and from the Festival. Adults will be charged a $1 admission fee for the Festival in lieu of the $1 round trip bus fare charged at previous Festivals. Children, who were previously charged a bus fare, will be admitted free to this year's Festival. Funds generated from the admission fee will be used for Festival ransportation and operation costs. The Deer Valley shuttle will provide free transportation along Swede Alley (adjacent to Main Street) and from Main Street to Deer Valley. The Park City Art Festival was established in 1969 by local artists and businessmen to attract people of Park City's quiet summer community. The architecture of Historic Main Street reminiscent of Park City's nineteenth century silver mining days, provides an ideal backdrop for an art festival. In 13 years the Festival has developed into one of Utah's major art event. The Park City Art Festival has been sponsored by the Kimball Art Center for the past four years. The Kimball Art Center has been a catalyst for the arts in Park City for over five years. New exhibits are presented in its galleries each month and the Center plays an important role in bringing performing arts to Park City. Sean Toomey, director of the 1982 Park City Art Festival, said, "We are all looking forward to this year's Festival. There will be more performing and visual artists on Main Street than ever before. August 7 and 8 promises to be a very exciting weekend in Park City." -'''.'..','" , ; ... i i t i i i . i |